Forces loyal to Muammar Gadaffi, the Libyan leader, are battling rebels in control of cities both close to the capital, Tripoli, and far away from it.

Reports said on Monday that fighter jets bombed an ammunition depot in the eastern city of Ajdabiya, while a resident of Az Zawiyah, 50km west of Tripoli, told the Associated Press news agency by telephone that fighting started on Monday evening and intensified after sundown when troops loyal to Gaddafi attacked the city from the west and east.

"We were able to repulse the attack. We damaged a tank with an RPG. The mercenaries fled after that," said the resident of Az Zawiyah, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of government reprisals.

He said Gaddafi called the city's influential tribal leader, Mohammed al-Maktouf, and warned him that if the rebels did not leave the main square by early Tuesday, they would be hit by fighter jets.

"We are expecting a major battle," the resident said, adding that the rebels killed eight soldiers and mercenaries on Monday.Read more of our Libya coverage

Another resident of Az Zawiyah said he heard gunfire well into the night on the outskirts of town.

AP said its reporter saw a large, pro-Gaddafi force massed on the western edge of Az Zawiyah.

There were also about a dozen armoured vehicles along with tanks and jeeps mounted with anti-aircraft guns.

An officer said the troops were from the elite Khamis Brigade, named after one of Gaddafi's sons who commands it and said by US diplomats to be the best-equipped force in Libya.

The fighting came amid mounting international pressure on Gaddafi - already under sanctions over his handling of the turmoil - to end a crackdown on opponents pushing for his ouster.

Gaddafi, in power since 1969, remains defiant and has scoffed at calls to step down, saying foreign powers, including al-Qaeda and drug addicts, were behind the unrest.

The US, meanwhile, said it was moving warships and air forces closer to Libya and France said it would fly aid to the opposition-controlled eastern half of the country.

But Abdel Fattah Younes, Libya's former interior minister who has defected to the opposition, told Al Jazeera that welcoming "foreign troops" was "out of the question" although "touching down in Libya is acceptable only in the case of emergency".

"For example if any pilot was forced to eject, he will be hosted and protected by us," he said.

Humanitarian concerns

With government forces and rebels clashing in different parts of Libya, the security situation in and around Tripoli has made it too dangerous for international aid agencies to assess the need for medicine, food and other supplies there, according to the UN.

"The major concerns are Tripoli and the west where access is extremely difficult because of the security situation," Valerie Amos, the UN humanitarian chief, told Al Jazeera on Monday.

"There are reports that between 600 and 2,000 people have already been killed in Tripoli. We don't know the absolute accurate number because we haven't got people there who are able to do assessments ... we've seen some horrific pictures of what is happening and we really want to be able to go in to help people in the time of need."

Gaddafi insists in TV interview that his people 'love him', while UN says 40,000 people have fled to Tunisia

Amos also called on countries neighbouring Libya to keep their borders open so refugees can continue to flee.

As of Monday morning, an estimated 61,000 had fled into Egypt, 1,000 to Niger and 40,000 to Tunisia, according to the UN, which said there was concern about water and sanitation for the refugees.

Libya also borders Algeria, Niger, Chad and Sudan.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has also called for immediate and safe access to western Libya.

ICRC teams entered the eastern side of the country including the country's second city Benghazi over the weekend, and are now supporting local doctors with medical care. Two thousand people were wounded there, according to the agency.

A similar ICRC team including surgeons and supplies was waiting on the western border in Tunisia.

"Right now, the situation is far too unstable and insecure to enable much-needed help to enter western parts of the country," Yves Daccord, the ICRC director-general, said.

"Health and aid workers must be allowed to do their jobs safely. Patients must not be attacked, and ambulances and hospitals must not be misused. It's a matter of life and death."

Thousands of foreigners have been evacuated from Libya since the unrest began on February 17, with ships and aircraft sent by countries including China India, the US, Turkey and many other European countries.

Anti-government protests started in the country's second-largest city of Benghazi, which is now in the hands of the protesters, and have since spread to the west of the country.

"She's called Aziza Ibrahim, a former bodyguard of Muammar al Gaddafi. Left him 17 years ago. An ex-raheba tawriya, a revolutionist nun, as Gaddafi calls them (cause they were not allowed to marry, per his orders). In addition to that, the lady bodyguards had to have strong/hard personalities so as to leave their families and everything behind them.

Aziza says she didn't kill anyone, but tells that there was this lady who once shot a guy (an army man, Gaddafi's relative) who happened to raise his voice in front of/at Gaddafi. Just like that, in front of the audience.

Aziza had left Lebanon and traveled to Libya in 1982, where she met Gaddafi's folks and was "scouted" to become one of his bodyguards. The process of choosing the bodyguards is done with utmost care. Those with higher rank are usually dark-skinned and the rest ten are like Aziza [TN: probably meaning that while the first group are the read deal, the latter group is chosen based on their looks].

One day al Lejan al Sha3biya [TN: 'Gaddafi's execution squads'] accompanied Aziza and a group of other bodyguards and students to at attend speech event by Gaddafi. There they witnessed the hangings of four students (among them was a student of law, caught just because he'd called someone in Irak). She also says that one of the individuals that was hung did not die immediately so they pulled on him to further hang him... all the while she stood there with her hands crossed in silence.

Then, at 2AM Aziza et co. were taken to al Madena al Riyadhiya, to a closed stadium/building to witness the execution of 17 students with live bullets. Screaming was forbidden, only supportive cheers and shouts like 'Traitors!' allowed. One of the students wasn't even the "traitor" but his cousin, but because the 'traitor' had managed to flee, they'd taken him instead.

Aziza concluded that were she still his bodyguard, she'd have killed him herself."

Anyway the story mentions that he fled Libya but closer reading show that we before his current release.

The Guardian: The last 110 members of the LIFG were freed on 16 February, the day after the Libyan uprising began. One of those released, Abdulwahab Mohammed Kayed, is the brother of Abu Yahya Al Libi, one of al Qaida's top propagandists. Koumi fled Libya and is said to have ended up in Afghanistan working for Bin Laden. Captured in Pakistan, he was handed over to the US and sent to Guantánamo Bay in 2002. In 2009 he was sent back to Libya. US counter-terrorist experts have expressed concern that al-Qaida could take advantage of a political vacuum if Gaddafi is overthrown. But most analysts say that, although the Islamists' ideology has strong resonance in eastern Libya, there is no sign that the protests are going to be hijacked by them.

Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, Bin Laden's regional "franchise," has condemned Gaddafi and urged Muslim scholars, thinkers and journalists to support the Libyan uprising. The group said: "We were pained by the carnage and the cowardly massacres carried out by the killer of innocents Gaddafi against our people and our unarmed Muslim brothers who only came to lift his oppression, his disbelief, his tyranny and his might.

Bluff or not, its unknown where these 110 terrorists are, what training they have and how they shall try to insert themselves. Only that they shall try to insert themselves.

The Gaddafi will do what? Become a noose tightening around the Gaddafi and his sons and his entourage, day after day, despite the desperate attempts to recover the revolt of the cities and towns around the corner, such as Tripoli and Misurata And Gheryan and visitors, and other towns, it did not succeed in something despite the severe wrath demonstrators. The demonstrations have erupted in more than one in Tripoli, the capital, and in light of the despair that took over Gaddafi and his sons of any honorable way out for them after it became a trading crimes in international criminal courts, and after the booking has been looted assets in various international banks , and after that rushed America in an attempt to atone for the indifference heinous crimes committed by Gaddafi in Benghazi and Tobruk, and white, and others, the Muammar Gaddafi, who is controlled by the paranoia, and Alnrjessep excessive that morals corrupt, which seems to have inherited his sons genetically appeared to them Alammeltha in their speeches and actions, at the best of his sons Off - perhaps Saif al-Islam - considered to the Libyan people's opposition to force his father and hallucinations his, with disdain and contempt for severe, where shortened in a group of Assassins and users drive hallucinations! May be Gaddafi's permission to resolve his actually move forward in his crimes, and his conversion to the President of militia in the end.

With Evkralqmavi? And any options that remained in front of him?

! Became almost a consensus among all observers and analysts that Gaddafi had been filled by the stubbornness and Nrjesseth sick all the ports, and made ​​this case difficult is unable even to recognize the existence of opposition in Libya, he is still repeating that the Libyan people, all the Libyan people! ! Wander around love and are willing to sacrifice their lives in sacrifice to him! ! This is what he says Gaddafi even today to the media! . And therefore probably be Gaddafi will not give in to reality and step down, and in particular had narrowed to the earth what it has become a welcomed and members of his family wanted for international justice. Perhaps one of the possible scenarios that will try to maintain control of Tripoli, the suppression of the demonstrations and stopped Bovtk arms, which may cause in the massacres of ugly, such as those we have seen many examples of them in other cities such as Benghazi and white, and angle, and perhaps the pace even more weapons the most deadly, the left has only a Bab Azizia palace, where the headquarters of the defense will try desperate for using brutality Almenthrp battalions, battalion, especially his son, Khamis, the balance tipped in favor of the revolution, whether with or without external assistance Gaddafi has moved to the city of Sabha ا.

In the middle Libya, which is one of its strongholds, because of tribal loyalty, which is still owed, which is located on the edge of the Sahara and the largest community of African, it is also the first station, which brings to Gaddafi armies of mercenaries from Chad, and Mali, and Niger, and Nigeria , and others.

ن . Early plans to move to the city of Siirt, which is still the other far from the revolution to several considerations, the most important tribal loyalty as fall within the tribe Alqmazvp fever.

Gaddafi was the arrogance and hubris and arrogance limit exceeded all imagine, making a lot of people insult him thirties were, and may appear to him that the leaders of the value Alnrjessep ought to destroy the fighters head up stand with his nose towards Aloala, rather than surrender to the will of the Libyan people, who did not recognize him days and the right to freedom of will, like Pharaoh and Moses, who said to his people: what show you only what I see and what I do but guide the way of righteousness! ا. Gaddafi, who Oogl glory crushed by the expensive and no longer sees his people the right to free choice after that the lance of his entourage, and hypocritical humility and used in his inner circle and Khanuaa Tzlva.. Said Pharaoh: "Believe ye in Him before I give you permission, it is a trick planned in the city to go out of her family will know. ! This verse describes us the perspective of the Pharaohs to their flocks shall be fully applicable on the psyche of every tyrant Jabbar, he does not see the one in the area of control and his right to choose or be convinced by something other than the dictates of the ruling authoritarian! ! Even ideological conviction shall be subject to the authorization of the ruling pharaoh, and otherwise it is deceit and betrayal worthy of warning: you will know! ! Pharaoh said: Oqtan to your hands and feet of the odds and crucify you on trunks of palm trees and the learned among us the most severely punished and kept!

و . And Gaddafi said: I will open my arms depots, and Libya all Sohol to embers burning, and that millions of people behind me Fitonni their lives, and you will enter your houses and Beta Rue Rue trained and trained and will know.

Grow and arrogance, and corruption on earth and great pride.

. Not in front of the brotherly Libyan people to be patient and move forward in resisting this tyrant Alamber, and Victory is near.